Leigh Osofsky

Professor Osofsky holds an A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University (2003) and a J.D. and membership to the Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School (2006).

Professor Osofsky teaches courses addressing various aspects of taxation and policy. Before joining the University of Miami faculty, Professor Osofsky was an Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law at New York University from 2009-2011.

Prior to entering academia, Professor Osofsky clerked for the Honorable Pierre Leval on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and worked as a tax attorney at Fenwick & West, LLP, specializing in tax transactional planning and also serving as counsel in complex tax litigation matters.

Discussant, Change We Can't Believe In ... Or Afford: Why the Timing is Wrong to Reduce the Estate Tax for the Wealthiest Americans by Phyllis Smith, Junior Tax Faculty Workshop, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA (June 29, 2011)

Discussant, A Vigorous, But Tentative Defense of the New State Corporate Income Taxby Darien Shanske, Junior Tax Faculty Workshop, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA (June 28, 2011)